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The Travel Chronicles of Mrs J Theodore Bent. Volume 1, Greece and the Levantine Littoral
by Bent, Mabel Virginia Anna & Brisch, Gerald
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- Paperback
- first
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- New
- ISBN 10
- 1905739028
- ISBN 13
- 9781905739028
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Oxford: Archaeopress, 2006 Book. New. Soft cover. First Thus.. On August 2nd 1877, the English explorer and archaeologist James Theodore Bent married an extraordinary Irishwoman, Mabel Virginia Anna Hall-Dare .and within a few months they had embarked on their pattern of annual travels that continued until his early death in 1897. Their trips began fairly close to home, visiting northern Italy, but by 1883 they were in the Eastern Mediterranean (in modern Greece and Turkey), searching out the antiquities, landscapes and lifestyles of a region that was to captivate them for the next fifteen years. Their researches led to a number of highly regarded monographs, papers and articles (such as Theodores 'The Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular Greeks', 1885, and the many publications of their various discoveries in locations such as Rugged Cilicia, the island of Thassos, and elsewhere) that were to place the couple securely amongst the foremost British travellers of the latter half of the 19th century. The publication, therefore, of Mabel Bents personal notebooks from the archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London, represents the discovery of a lost and notable milestone for scholars and travel enthusiasts of all kinds. This series of volumes begins with Mabels account of the couples adventures around the Aegean and beyond, extracted from her fifteen-year sequence of notebooks and presented chronologically. Specifically, we follow Mabel and Theodore to the Greek mainland and the islands known now as the Cyclades and the Dodecanese, as well as the northern Aegean islands; their journeys along the Turkish littoral lead them from bustling Istanbul to provincial Mersin in the far south-west.363p. illus maps index..
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- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Travel Chronicles of Mrs J Theodore Bent. Volume 1, Greece and the Levantine Littoral
- Author
- Bent, Mabel Virginia Anna & Brisch, Gerald
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Edition
- First Thus.
- ISBN 10
- 1905739028
- ISBN 13
- 9781905739028
- Publisher
- Archaeopress
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- MODERN GREECE GREEK ISLANDS TRAVEL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Greek Islands; Greece 1840-1900;
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